Ted Dansons Voice: Woah woah woah, we weren't promised to be Charlie Sheen-Grade winners.
Hell yeah... all that "tarrif money" from the first go-arounds is in trump's pocket. You don't think HE'S going to pay for his criminal act, do you?
Get the fuck out of here !!! You crazy person you.
This is all a national-scale grift, and he still manages to get people to cheer for stealing the food from their mouths
The biglyest winning! So much YUGE win! In fact, many men, big burly men, have said "Sir, Sir! Please Sir, take more money from us to make business richer, so we can be in debt for your fantastic plans!" They said it while literally crying, believe me.
I can picture Adam Something saying this mid-rant :)
All of these corporate fines, where the citizens get screwed, but the government gets all the money, needs to be handled differently.
We need to start an "America First Fund" (irony intended) for these sorts of fines, which will be the seed money to fund our wish list of social programs, starting with Medicare 4 All. As we collect fines, settlements, confiscations, etc. from Sociopathic Oligarchs and their corporations, it should go into the America First Fund, to finance a better life for all American citizens.
There should be an "econonomic" as a separate government estate of power. It could be much more direct democracy with people voting every month on economic proposals. Like the federal bank printing the money, which the people then can vote for to fund this or that project. Buy this or that factory, or shut it down. Parts of the economy planned, but democratic in many ways.
It's so ludicrous that we're stuck on 19th century democracy when we have better voting systems and internet access and cheap usb authentication dongles.
It's been a big slow robbery the whole time.
I've had some conversations with some pretty generationaly wealthy people, the underlying sentiment is, if you aren't going to call us out on the stock market literally there to enrich the wealthy and steal the wages, then we are just going to keep pushing the envelope.
I think you’re right. I keep hearing about how the stock market bubble will burst, but I can’t help but think that a) billionaires will use a lot of power to resist that and b) if it does, they’ll buy up all the leftovers for cheap and leave the little guy with the true loss
"Always has been" pic
They're all fine with redistribution of wealth, but only in one direction.
The trickling up policy
evaporation theory?
nah, evaporation will rain down at some point. this wealth transfer only goes up
"there's class war alright, but it's our class, the owning class, that is waging war, and we're winning". -- some rich person a few years ago
This is called wealth transfer, conservatives only like it when it goes from the bottom to the top.
But we drove unemployment down because the businesses and oligarchs got all the extra money right? righhhht?
:aniken/padme meme:
I love democracy
It's actually even worse than just taxpayers paying businesses: Since the US doesn't have the tax revenue to pay the businesses, it will need to take out more debt to pay them. So the taxpayers will not only pay the businesses, but they will also pay interest. (That is, if you believe that the US will be able to stabilize its debt before defaulting. At the rate we're going, with the looter class taking US government funds, the US will end up defaulting before taxpayers have a chance to pay down the debt. To be clear, a default would be far more painful than the austerity required to stabilize the debt.)
Forgive me for not understanding as I'm not from the US, but what happened to the funds from the collected tariffs?
They go to Trump's sovereign wealth fund which he uses to give his allies cushy government contracts.
Do you have a source where I could read more about this? I tried looking all of this up and the only articles I found contradict the original comment about taking loans to repay tariffs and that putting tariff revenue into a sovereign wealth fund was proposed but never happened.
Edit: further reading shows neither is factual.
Probably spent on ICE
People in USA: so are your import tariffs gone now? Have tariff related price increases gone back down? Or have businesses just decided to keep that free money too?
That's the fun part: the ratchet only goes one way. Another fun part? We're doing more tarrifs!
And we're doing it all over again.
You would be amazed how many taxes work exactly like this.
(hint: its most of them).
Are you ... defending the tariffs?
That's because a tariff is a fancy way to say "tax raise"
Glad you're enjoying it America. Facisim is a super active sport, be careful not to tyranny ligament!
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